Salivary cortisol and psychopathy dimensions in detained antisocial adolescents

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1586-1595

  Feilhauer, Johanna ^a   Cima, Maaike ^d,e   Korebrits, Andries ^b,c   Nicolson, Nancy A ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c St Joseph Foundation   (Netherlands)

^d TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e Forensic Psychiatric Centre de Rooyse Wissel   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aggression; Conduct disorder; Cortisol; CU traits; HPA axis; Impulsivity; Narcissism; Psychopathy dimensions

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; CONDUCT DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NARCISSISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOPATHY; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SALIVA LEVEL; SELF REPORT;

AGGRESSION; CONDUCT DISORDER; CORTISOL; CU TRAITS; HPA AXIS; IMPULSIVITY; NARCISSISM; PSYCHOPATHY DIMENSIONS;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; AGGRESSION; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; NARCISSISM; NETHERLANDS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRISONERS; PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SALIVA; SECRETORY RATE; SELF REPORT;

EID: 84883655675     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2013.01.005     Document Type: Article

References (61)

1. Alink L.R.A., van Ijzendoorn M.H., Bakermans-Kranenburg M.J., Mesman J., Juffer F., Koot H.M. Cortisol and externalizing behavior in children and adolescents: mixed meta-analytic evidence for the inverse relation of basal cortisol and cortisol reactivity with externalizing behavior. Dev. Psychobiol. 2008, 50:427-450.
2. Azar R., Zoccolillo M., Paquette D., Quiros E., Baltzer F., Tremblay R.E. Cortisol levels and conduct disorder in adolescent mothers. J. Am. Acad. Child Adolesc. Psychiatry 2004, 43:461-472.
3. Barry C.T., Frick P.J., DeShazo T.M., McCoy M.G., Ellis M., Loney B.R. The importance of callous-unemotional traits for extending the concept of psychopathy to children. J. Abnorm. Psychol. 2000, 109:335-340.
4. Barry C.T., Frick P.J., Killian A.L. The relation of narcissism and self-esteem to conduct problems in children: a preliminary investigation. J. Clin. Child Adolesc. Psychol. 2003, 32:139-152.
5. Broderick J.E., Arnold D., Kudielka B.M., Kirschbaum C. Salivary cortisol sampling compliance: comparison of patients and healthy volunteers. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2004, 29:636-650.
6. Burke J.D., Loeber R., Lahey B.B. Adolescent conduct disorder and interpersonal callousness as predictors of psychopathy in young adults. J. Clin. Child Adolesc. Psychol. 2007, 36:334-346.
7. Cima M., Smeets T., Jelicic M. Self-reported trauma, cortisol levels, and aggression in psychopathic and non-psychopathic prison inmates. Biol. Psychol. 2008, 78:75-86.
8. Cooke D.J., Michie C., Skeem J. Understanding the structure of the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised: an exploration of methodological confusion. Br. J. Psychiatry 2007, 190:39-50.
9. Dahl G. Handbuch zum Reduzierten Wechsler-Intelligenztest 1986, Hain Verlag, Koenigstein-Traunstein, Germany.
10. Essau C.A., Sasagawa S., Frick P.J. Callous-unemotional traits in a community sample of adolescents. Assessment 2006, 13:454-469.
11. Fairchild G., van Goozen S.H., Stollery S.J., Brown J., Gardiner J., Herbert J., Goodyer I.M. Cortisol diurnal rhythm and stress reactivity in male adolescents with early-onset or adolescence-onset conduct disorder. Biol. Psychiatry 2008, 64:599-606.
12. Feilhauer J., Cima M., Arntz A. Assessing callous-unemotional traits across different groups of youths: further cross-cultural validation of the Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits. Int. J. Law Psychiatry 2012, 35:251-262.
13. Fisher P., Wicks J., Shaffer D., Piacentini J., Lapkin J. Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children: User's Manual, Version 2.3 1992, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York.
14. Foster E.M., Jones D.E. The high costs of aggression: public expenditures resulting from conduct disorder. Am. J. Public Health 2005, 95:1767-1772.
15. Frick P.J. The Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits 2003, University of New Orleans.
16. Frick P.J., White S.F. Research review: the importance of callous-unemotional traits for developmental models of aggressive and antisocial behavior. J. Child Psychol. Psychiatry 2008, 49:359-375.
17. Glenn A.L. Neuroendocrine markers of psychopathy. The Handbook of Neuropsychiatric Biomarkers, Endophenotypes, and Genes 2009, Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. M.S. Ritsner (Ed.).
18. Glenn A.L., Raine A., Schug R.A., Gao Y., Granger D.A. Increased testosterone-to-cortisol ratio in psychopathy. J. Abnorm. Psychol. 2011, 120:389-399.
19. Hawes D.J., Brennan J., Dadds M.R. Cortisol, callous-unemotional traits, and pathways to antisocial behavior. Curr. Opin. Psychiatry 2009, 22:357-362.
20. Holi M., Auvinen-Lintunen L., Lindberg N., Tani P., Virkkunen M. Inverse correlation between severity of psychopathic traits and serum cortisol levels in young adult violent male offenders. Psychopathology 2006, 39:102-104.
21. Hruschka D.J., Kohrt B.A., Worthman C.M. Estimating between- and within-individual variation in cortisol levels using multilevel models. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2005, 30:698-714.
22. Kubak F.A., Salekin R.T. Psychopathy and anxiety in children and adolescents: new insights on developmental pathways to offending. J. Psychopathol. Behav. Assess. 2009, 31:271-284.
23. Loney B.R., Butler M.A., Lima E.N., Counts C.A., Eckel L.A. The relation between salivary cortisol, callous-unemotional traits, and conduct problems in an adolescent non-referred sample. J. Child Psychol. Psychiatry 2006, 47:30-36.
24. Matthys W., van Goozen S.H., Snoek H., van Engeland H. Response perseveration and sensitivity to reward and punishment in boys with oppositional defiant disorder. Eur. Child Adolesc. Psychiatry 2004, 13:362-364.
25. McBurnett K., Lahey B.B., Capasso L., Loeber R. Aggressive symptoms and salivary cortisol in clinic-referred boys with conduct disorder. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1996, 794:169-178.
26. McBurnett K., Lahey B.B., Rathouz P.J., Loeber R. Low salivary cortisol and persistent aggression in boys referred for disruptive behavior. Arch. Gen. Psychiatry 2000, 57:38-43.
27. McBurnett K., Raine A., Stouthamer-Loeber M., Loeber R., Kumar A.M., Kumar M., Lahey B.B. Mood and hormone responses to psychological challenge in adolescent males with conduct problems. Biol. Psychiatry 2005, 57:1109-1116.
28. Mitchell D.G., Colledge E., Leonard A., Blair R.J. Risky decisions and response reversal: is there evidence of orbitofrontal cortex dysfunction in psychopathic individuals?. Neuropsychologia 2002, 40:2013-2022.
29. O'Brien B.S., Frick P.J. Reward dominance: associations with anxiety, conduct problems, and psychopathy in children. J. Abnorm. Child Psychol. 1996, 24:223-240.
30. O'Leary M.M., Loney B.R., Eckel L.A. Gender differences in the association between psychopathic personality traits and cortisol response to induced stress. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2007, 32:183-191.
31. O'Leary M.M., Taylor J., Eckel L. Psychopathic personality traits and cortisol response to stress: the role of sex, type of stressor, and menstrual phase. Horm. Behav. 2010, 58:250-256.
32. Popma A., Doreleijers T.A., Jansen L.M., Goozen van S.H., Engeland van H., Vermeiren R. The diurnal cortisol cycle in delinquent male adolescents and normal controls. Neuropsychopharmacology 2007, 32:1622-1628.
33. Popma A., Jansen L.M., Vermeiren R., Steiner H., Raine A., Goozen van S.H., Engeland van H., Doreleijers T.A. Hypothalamus pituitary adrenal axis and autonomic activity during stress in delinquent male adolescents and controls. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2006, 31:948-957.
34. Porter S., Woodworth M. Psychopathy and aggression. Handbook of Psychopathy 2006, The Guilford Press, New York. C.J. Patrick (Ed.).
35. Poustka L., Maras A., Hohm E., Fellinger J., Holtmann M., Banaschewski T., Lewicka S., Schmidt M.H., Esser G., Laucht M. Negative association between plasma cortisol levels and aggression in a high-risk community sample of adolescents. J. Neural Transm. 2010, 117:621-627.
36. Raine A. The Psychopathology of Crime: Criminal Behavior as a Clinical Disorder 1993, Academic Press, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA.
37. Raine A. Autonomic nervous system activity and violence. Aggression and Violence 1996, 145-168. Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ. D.M. Stoff, R.B. Cairns (Eds.).
38. Raine A., Dodge K., Loeber R., Gatzke-Kopp L., Lynam D., Reynolds C., Stouthhamer-Loeber M., Liu J. The Reactive-Proactive Aggression Questionnaire: differential correlates of reactive and proactive aggression in adolescent boys. Aggressive Behav. 2006, 32:159-171.
39. Raskin R., Terry H. A principal-components analysis of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory and further evidence of its construct validity. J. Pers. Soc. Psychol. 1988, 54:890-902.
40. Rosmalen J.G., Oldehinkel A.J. The role of group dynamics in scientific inconsistencies: a case study of a research consortium. PLoS Med. 2011, 8:e1001143.
41. Salekin R.T., Neumann C.S., Leistico A.M., Zalot A.A. Psychopathy in youth and intelligence: an investigation of Cleckley's hypothesis. J. Clin. Child Adolesc. Psychol. 2004, 33:731-742.
42. Schmeck K., Poustka F. Biologische Grundlagen von impulsiv-aggressivem Verhalten. Kindh. Entwickl. 2000, 9:3-13.
43. Shaffer D., Fisher P., Lucas C.P., Dulcan M.K., Schwab-Stone M.E. NIMH Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children Version IV (NIMH DISC-IV): description, differences from previous versions, and reliability of some common diagnoses. J. Am. Acad. Child Adolesc. Psychiatry 2000, 39:28-38.
44. Shirtcliff E.A., Vitacco M.J., Graf A.R., Gostisha A.J., Merz J.L., Zahn-Waxler C. Neurobiology of empathy and callousness: implications for the development of antisocial behavior. Behav. Sci. Law 2009, 27:137-171.
45. Snijders T.A.B., Bosker R. Multilevel Analysis: An Introduction to Basic and Advanced Multilevel Modeling 1999, Sage, London.
46. Sondeijker F., Ferdinand R.F., Oldehinkel A.J., Tiemeier H., Ormel J., Verhulst F.C. HPA-axis activity as a predictor of future disruptive behaviors in young adolescents. Psychophysiology 2008, 45:398-404.
47. Sondeijker F., Ferdinand R.F., Oldehinkel A.J., Veenstra R., Tiemeier H., Ormel J., Verhulst F.C. Disruptive behaviors and HPA-axis activity in young adolescent boys and girls from the general population. J. Psychiatr. Res. 2007, 41:570-578.
48. Stadler C., Poustka F., Sterzer P. The heterogeneity of disruptive behavior disorders - implications for neurobiological research and treatment. Front. Psychiatr. Child Neurodev. Psychiatry 2010, 1.
49. van Bokhoven I., van Goozen S.H., van Engeland H., Schaal B., Arseneault L., Seguin J.R., Nagin D.S., Vitaro F., Tremblay R.E. Salivary cortisol and aggression in a population-based longitudinal study of adolescent males. J. Neural Transm. 2005, 112:1083-1096.
50. van de Wiel N.M., van Goozen S.H., Matthys W., Snoek H., van Engeland H. Cortisol and treatment effect in children with disruptive behavior disorders: a preliminary study. J. Am. Acad. Child Adolesc. Psychiatry 2004, 43:1011-1018.
51. van Goozen S.H., Fairchild G. How can the study of biological processes help design new interventions for children with severe antisocial behavior?. Dev. Psychopathol. 2008, 20:941-973.
52. van Goozen S.H., Fairchild G., Snoek H., Harold G.T. The evidence for a neurobiological model of childhood antisocial behavior. Psychol. Bull. 2007, 133:149-182.
53. van Goozen S.H., Matthys W., Cohen-Kettenis P.T., Buitelaar J.K., van Engeland H. Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and autonomic nervous system activity in disruptive children and matched controls. J. Am. Acad. Child Adolesc. Psychiatry 2000, 39:1438-1445.
54. van Goozen S.H., Matthys W., Cohen-Kettenis P.T., Gispen-de Wied C., Wiegant V.M., van Engeland H. Salivary cortisol and cardiovascular activity during stress in oppositional-defiant disorder boys and normal controls. Biol. Psychiatry 1998, 43:531-539.
55. van Honk J., Schutter D.J., Hermans E.J., Putman P. Low cortisol levels and the balance between punishment sensitivity and reward dependency. Neuroreport 2003, 14:1993-1996.
56. Vanyukov M.M., Moss H.B., Plail J.A., Blackson T., Mezzich A.C., Tarter R.E. Antisocial symptoms in preadolescent boys and in their parents: associations with cortisol. Psychiatry Res. 1993, 46:9-17.
57. Virkkunen M. Urinary free cortisol secretion in habitually violent offenders. Acta Psychiatr. Scand. 1985, 72:40-44.
58. Vitacco M.J., Rogers R., Neumann C.S. The Antisocial Process Screening Device: an examination of its construct and criterion-related validity. Assessment 2003, 10:143-150.
59. Wechsler D. Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Third Edition-NL (WISC-III-NL) 2005, NIP Dienstencentrum, Amsterdam, (Dutch version).
60. Woodman D.D., Hinton J.W., O'Neill M.T. Cortisol secretion and stress in maximum security hospital patients. J. Psychosom. Res. 1978, 22:133-136.
61. Zuckerman M. Sensation Seeking: Beyond the Optimum Level of Arousal 1979, Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ.